I am the miserable-evil-tyrant-owner of JavaRanch.
I started this joint because I had the need to express my opinions on a java style guide. Later, I added some programming pearls and some java forums.
Just a wacky thing. Bla bla bla about Java, and lots of folks showed up!
More recently, I've gone on a tirade about unit testing and wrote Evil Unit Testing with an emphasis on the importance of vocabulary and how too much functional testing can lead to a brittle project.
I think that design patterns have taken a bad turn probably due to their own popularity. So I wrote a brief bit called Evil Design Patterns.
When describing diagnostics, I needed to express it in one, big gob, so I wrote Better Enterprise/Network Monitoring with Component Diagnostics.
I'm nuts about permaculture (check out my permaculture forums). In the early 90's I became obsessed with gardening and all forms of horticulture. In 1994 I gave a presentation on lawn care and wrote some blurb for the occasion. When the web rolled around in 1995, I copied the blurb into some rough HTML and stuck it on the web. I called it organic lawn care for the cheap and lazy. It gets heaps of traffic - probably because it's so old.
Back in the 80's some college professor made me write in a journal and he let me use my newfangled computer. I filled out a few pages waxing on about how my family made sourdough pancakes. A couple of years ago I found it and mashed that into html too.
Lately I've been crusading the use of cast iron and reducing the panic surrounding flea control.
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